blue screen(need help fast please)

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Alkanova

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hi everyone

I'm new here -and new with macintosh-and I have a problem with my mac mini

everytime I turn the mac on

It takes a long time then it just turn to a blue screen -it doesn't even ask me to sign in with a user- and the only thing I can do is moving the mouse


please help me fast I have important documants in it


thanks in advance
 
right, try holding down 'shift' on startup, basically, hold down shift as soon as you hear the chime, and then untill it starts loading mac os x.

this will start it up in 'safe mode', which also does a complete disk check, and other fixing things.

or, you could hold 's' on start-up, which will put you in to the 'single-user mode' which i suppose could be like dos, as it were. once in, type

fsck -fy

(f, s, c, k, space, dash, f, y) and hit enter. this runs a disk check properly. if it says the disk was modified, repeat. repeat until it says 'all volumes were ok, nothing was modified', then restart.
 
Lt Major Burns said:
right, try holding down 'shift' on startup, basically, hold down shift as soon as you hear the chime, and then untill it starts loading mac os x.

this will start it up in 'safe mode', which also does a complete disk check, and other fixing things.

or, you could hold 's' on start-up, which will put you in to the 'single-user mode' which i suppose could be like dos, as it were. once in, type

fsck -fy

(f, s, c, k, space, dash, f, y) and hit enter. this runs a disk check properly. if it says the disk was modified, repeat. repeat until it says 'all volumes were ok, nothing was modified', then restart.
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Actually, Single User Mode is Command-S. The Command key is the one with the apple and the propeller on it.
 
well eveytime I use the shift the computer shuts down without any reason in the middle of the loading

and the command-S

here what it says


** /dev/rdisk0s3
** Root file system
** Checking HFS Plus volume.
** Checking Extents Overflow file.
** Checking Catalog file.
Keys out of order
(4,28702)
** Rebuilding Catalog B-tree.
** The volume Macintosh HD could not be repaired.

do I repeat fsck -fy ?
 
ah, I wrote fsck -fy 10 times and nothing changed :(

now the only way is buying that DiskWarrior*sigh* thanks everone
if you have other ways to try just remeber that I'm waiting ,it will take me a while to buy that thing :P (and if you have a way to have diskWarrior free I'm waiting too xD)

thanks again
 
do you have access to another mac running OSX? if you do, or can get access, then you could link the two via FireWire, then start up your dead mac while holding T, to instigate Firewire Target disk mode. if not damaged, the mini's hard drive should appear on the desktop of the other mac as an external hard disk, at which point you could try disk utility on it, or at worst, get the files off which are sensitive/meaningful.

i would say yes to diskwarrior, or contact apple if it's less than a year old.
 
no I don't have another OS X :(

Is there anyway to get the data and other things in it to a dvd or something?

edit:I've used the mac installation CD and it asked me to chose a volume but there was none :S

I think that it doesn't see it
 
DiskWarrior would be a good investment, it has a good track record with fixing broken hard drives. If it's under a year old, or if you have AppleCare, contact Apple to arrange for a (free) repair.
 
I don't think that there is any AppleCare the place where I'm ,and it is not about for free or for money ,it's just that there are things that i need in that mac fast and it is going to take a while to get the diskwarrior(becuase not everone have deleiveries and offers for my area)

but whatever
it looks like that I'll have to delay things for a few days


thanks for your help people :)
 
Actually, I think you can download DiskWarrior, and burn it. You just need to buy a serial/download. If there's an Apple Store nearby, they can probably fix it in a day, data backup is like $50.
 
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